LITERATURE & CRITICISM
Jane Potter 8th June, hb, £25, 9780199689507 A fresh understanding of the poet’s life in his own words.
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My Reading 25th May, hb, £18.99, 97801928 Series offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works and to show their effect upon a reader’s own thinking and development. Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea John Plotz vol 1 47881 Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time Gavin Francis vol 2 58177 Marcel Proust Michael Wood vol 3 45825
Shakespeare Without a Life Margreta de Grazia 27th April, hb, £25, 9780198812548 How Shakespeare’s works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Peepal Tree Press
Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes Seepersad Naipaul, Aaron Eastley (ed), Brinsley Samaroo (ed), Kenneth Ramchand (ed), Nivedita Misra (ed) 13th April, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781845235635 Selected journalism gives an unrivalled portrayal of Indian Trinidad in the late colonial era and allows us to appreciate the astonishing literary inventiveness of an entirely self-taught man.
Princeton University Press
Writing With Pleasure Helen Sword, Selina Tusitala Marsh (illus) 4th April, hb, eb, £25, 9780691191775 Essential guide to cultivat- ing joy in professional and personal writing.
Impermanent Blackness Korey Garibaldi 11th April, hb, eb, £25, 9780691211909 Revisiting an almost- forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism before the 1960s.
Thoreau’s Axe Caleb Smith 7th March, hb, eb, £25, 9780691214771
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How 19th-century “disci- plines of attention” antici- pated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being “spiritual but not religious”.
Jane Austen, Early and Late Freya Johnston 9th May, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780691229805 Re-examination of Austen’s unpublished writ- ings uncovers their conti- nuity with her celebrated novels—and challenges distinctions between her early and late work.
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric Virginia Jackson 14th February, pb, eb, £28, 9780691232805 How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries.
Talking Cure Paula Marantz Cohen 9th May, hb, eb, £20, 9780691238500 Invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation.
Pleasure and Efficacy Grace Elisabeth Lavery 30th May, pb, eb, £25, 9780691243931 Leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period.
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales Jack Zipes 30th May, hb, eb, £28, 9780691244730 Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales.
Soul and Substance Jay Wright 27th June, pb, eb, £25, 9780691245966 Anthology of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist and playwright.
Rutgers University Press
The Secret Life of Things Mark Blackwell (ed), Barbara M Benedict (ed), Jonathan Lamb (ed), Deidre Lynch et al 12th May, pb, £32.95, 9781684484706 Stylistically and themati- cally consistent, the essays in this collection approach it-narratives from various theoretical and historical vantage points.
Hero Me Not Chesya Burke
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
14th April, pb, £25.50, 9781978821057 Examines the multifaceted dimensions of the comic book character Storm seeking to discover if her nearly unlimited power offers her freedom within the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
Litcomix Adam Geczy,
Jonathan McBurnie 17th March, pb, £27.50, 9781978828650 Fresh perspectives on how we might appreciate graphic novels as literature.
Springer Nature
Travelling With Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo Giuseppe Mussardo, Gaspare Polizzi 12th April, pb, eb, £29.99, 9783031186103 Seven hundred years after Dante Alighieri’s death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo.
The Arden Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: A Brief Life Paul Menzer 20th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781350156753 Short and entertaining biography exploring the facts and the myths surrounding the Bard’s life and times.
The Belknap Press
Political Disappointment Sara Marcus 30th June, hb, £34.95, 9780674248656 Moving from the after- math of Reconstruction through the Aids crisis, Marcus shows how artists, intellectuals and activists turned political disap- pointment into a basis for solidarity.
Wonder Confronts Certainty
Gary Saul Morson 26th May, hb, £33.95, 9780674971806 Noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon to explore how realists, idealists and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility and freedom.
The University of Michigan Press
Living Labor Joseph B Entin
13th February, pb, £31.95, 9780472055197 Examines new narratives about work and workers in the age of transnational migration and precarious labour.
The University of South Carolina Press
Embracing Vocation: Cormac Mccarthy’s Writing Life, 1959-1974 Dianne C Luce 1st February, pb, £32.95, 9781643363554 Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of McCarthy. Novel by novel, Luce unveils the author’s working processes as well as his personal, liter- ary and professional influences.
Trapeze
Well-read Black Girl Glory Edim 13th April, pb, £9.99, 9781409189282 Inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club and online community.
UCL Press
In the Face of Adversity Thomas Nolden 1st February, hb, £45, 9781800083714 pb, eb, £25, 9781800083707 Part of a series that emphasises diversity of genre, culture, period and approach.
University of Alberta Press
Leaving Other People Alone Aaron Kreuter 13th April, pb, eb, £30.99, 9781772126570 Kreuter reads contem- porary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic lens: Herzl, Uris, Roth, Tsabari and Bezmozgis.
University of Wales Press
Charlotte Dacre: The Passions Jennifer J Airey 15th March, hb, eb, £75, 9781786839619 Examines the thrilling gothic novel of thwarted love turned to hate and the destructive power of uncontrolled emotion.
Folk Horror Ruth Heholt (ed), Dawn Keetley (ed) 15th March, pb, eb, £50, 9781786839794
The cultural and political significance of the darker and more violent manifes- tations of folkloric stories around the world.
Ramsey Campbell Keith MC O’Sullivan 15th March, hb, £75, 9781786839855 Focusing on neglected longer fictions, O’Sullivan discusses the writer’s style and treatment of gothic.
SERIES
Gothic Literary Studies hb, eb, £75, 97817868399 Dedicated to publishing groundbreaking scholar- ship on gothic literature and film and promoting challenging approaches. Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 Joan Passey 15th April, 16 Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism Alex Bevan 15th March, 47
Latin America and Existentialism Edwin Murillo 15th April, hb, eb, £70, 9781837720002 While primarily a liter- ary study, this introduces indispensable if underap- preciated figures of exis- tential philosophy in Latin America.
The British Industrial Canal Jodie Matthews 15th June, vol 3, hb, eb, £80, 9781837720033 Explores literature about canals in Britain, from poetry about early industrial waterways in the 18th century to “canal noir” in the 21st.
This is Not a Grail Romance: Understanding Peredur Vab Efrawc Natalia Petrovskaia 15th July, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781837720361 Provides the reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and mysterious narrative.
University Press of Mississippi
Asian Political Cartoons John A Lent 15th February, pb, £31.50, 9781496842534 Incorporating interviews, analysis, observation of cartoonists at work, and historical research, Lent offers the most complete and detailed study of the subject in any language.
Vanderbilt University Press
Ghosts Over the Boiler Katie Owens-Murphy (ed)
15th February, pb, £22.95, 9780826505293 Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty anthology of poetry, visual art, essays and other creative writings that have emerged from Alabama’s death row.
Verso Books
Osip Mandelstam Ralph Dutli 30th May, hb, eb, £25, 9781839761584 The personal and political life of the iconic Russian poet graphically portrayed in this lavishly illustrated book.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Empire Windrush Onyekachi Wambu 22nd June, hb, £25, 9781399601917 Inspiring anthology of some of the best Black British writing centred around the experiences of the Windrush generation, published for the 75th anniversary.
William Collins
Shakespeare’s Book Chris Laoutaris 16th March, hb, £25, 9780008238384 The true story of how the First Folio creators made “Shakespeare”.
Yale University Press
Into the World’s Great Heart Edna St Vincent Millay, Timothy F Jackson (ed) 13th June, hb, eb, £9.99, 9780300245608 Annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright.
Look At the Lights, My Love Annie Ernaux, Alison L Strayer 4th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780300268218 Revelatory meditation on the hypermarket from 2022 Nobel laureate.
Critical Revolutionaries Terry Eagleton 27th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780300270440 Eagleton looks back across 60 years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature.
Why Argument Matters Lee Siegel 21st February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780300271072 Hailed by the New York Times as a book that
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